"There is a desire within the industry for London to give a best film award, " she told the BBC News website.
"Argo, " a thriller centered on the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, last month landed the best film award at the Screen Actors Guild Awards and the Golden Globes.
He has also won the National Film Award for best music direction, for the film Refugee (2001), and received the Filmfare Special Jury Award in 2000 for his outstanding contribution to music.
In other words, every foreign language film nominated for both Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film lost the first award but won the second.
Jurors said the film, which picked up the best first feature award at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, "offers us a transcendent tale of hope and perseverance in a world that few Westerners ever have the chance to see".
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George Clooney, up for a best actor award for his film "Up in the Air, " will host a telethon on Friday to raise money for the devastated island nation.
The most successful director of all time, at least financially, Steven Spielberg was finally honoured by the Academy in 1994 for a best director award for his film Schindler's List.
Hana-bi is Kitano's best film yet, and won the prestigious Gold Lion award at the 1997 Venice Film Festival.
The film also won the best screenplay award for Carl Joos and Felix van Groeningen.
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British actor Jim Broadbent has won the Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival.
Cartoon sequel Toy Story 3 is one of 15 titles in contention for next year's Academy Award for best animated film.
Director Nicolas Winding Refn won the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival and critics lauded the film with a 93 out of 100 on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Despite his lasting association with the director, Mr. von Sydow's one previous Oscar nomination was not for a role in a Bergman picture but rather for another Swedish-language part, that of Lassefar in Bille August's "Pelle the Conqueror" (1987), which won an Academy Award for best foreign film as well as the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
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They will also reinstate the prestigious Michael Powell Award for best British feature film in 2012.
Iran's A Separation received the award for best foreign language film, while Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris won best screenplay.
But it failed to win the Bafta panel's award for the best feature film - that prize went to The Incredibles.
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There's a clear favourite to win the Academy Award for best foreign language film this time - based on its spread of nominations alone, Amour is already an Oscar hit.
Studio Ghibli's "Spirited Away, " which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film in 2003, remains the top-grossing Japanese film in history, and Miyazaki, who co-founded the studio in 1985, has been called "Japan's Walt Disney" for his impact on the country's animation culture.
Paul Thomas Anderson picked up the best director award for The Master, his film about a Scientology-like group.
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The French film about a literature teacher in inner-city Paris received glowing reviews and several other wins -- including an Independent Spirit Award for best foreign-language film -- though it came up short at the Oscars and at the Cesars (France's Oscar equivalent), taking home only a writing award at the latter.
The Tale of the Three Brothers, part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, picked up the award for best animated sequence in a film.
Aubrey Plaza and Jake Johnson co-starred in the film, which also earned a best first screenplay award and nomination for best first feature at the Independent Spirit Awards.
On Monday night, I had a chance to attend a screening of Saving Face, the film that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short last month.
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The director of Padre Nuestro, which won the award for best drama by a US film-maker, said the film wanted to highlight New York as a city of immigrants.
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The biopic, starring Peter O'Toole, which followed the life of Pu Yi- the last of the Emperors of China - was the first and only Italian film to win the Academy Award for best director.
The best actor award went to Jeff Bridges for country music film Crazy Heart.
The Audience Award for best drama was given to a film which portrays a father who must tell his children that their mother has been killed in Iraq.
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In the 25 years since Rocky won the Academy Award for Best Picture, the top-grossing film has won the Oscar just five times.
Joe Wright's adaptation of Anna Karenina came away with the award for best costume design, while Disney Pixar film Brave was named best animation.
He won an Academy Award in 1997 for best supporting actor in the film "Jerry Maguire" and starred in this year's "Red Tails, " about the Tuskegee Airmen.
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